224 pages ; 24 cm

Contraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women's movement. How did the women's movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the sexual revolution, which reduced women to ambitious sex objects, become so united? In Subverted, Sue Ellen Browder documents for the first time how it all happened, in her own life and in the life of an entire country. Trained at the University of Missouri School of Journalism to be an investigative journalist, Browder unwittingly betrayed her true calling and became a propagandist for sexual liberation. As a long-time freelance writer for Cosmopolitan magazine, she wrote pieces meant to soft-sell unmarried sex, contraception, and abortion as the single woman's path to personal fulfillment. She did not realize until much later that propagandists higher and cleverer than herself were influencing her thinking and her personal choices as they subverted the women's movement. The thirst for truth, integrity, and justice for women that led Browder into journalism in the first place eventually led her to find forgiveness and freedom in the place she least expected to find them. Her in-depth research, her probing analysis, and her honest self-reflection set the record straight and illumine a way forward for others who have suffered from the unholy alliance between the women's movement and the sexual revolution. - Publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index

The inside witness -- The problem that had no name -- Making up a revolution -- The deceiver becomes the deceived -- A fly on the wall of the Chinese room -- Good-bye to glamour -- Philosophy of a little gray man -- Harry's dilemma -- Just broke again -- Two roads diverge -- The new woman asks new questions -- From Cosmo to cosmos (and back again) -- Hollywood, here we come -- Seventeen minutes of fame -- Our nightmare in Cerritos -- Two monks in Corona -- Lessons under the redwoods -- Finding our way to freedom -- Epilogue : Christmas in the ICU

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